Joshua Piovia-Scott specializes in both class action and individual civil rights cases involving racial and sexual harassment and discrimination, slavery and human trafficking, retaliation for whistleblowing, police misconduct, the right to free speech and wage and hour violations.
Mr. Piovia-Scott has worked on a wide range of cases, including Ruiz v. Jackson, in which a jury awarded $1.6 million against a Sony Executive for coercing a Filipino woman into service as a domestic slave, Hernandez v. Tyco, a wage and hour class action on behalf of factory workers that settled for $4.9 million and Navarro v. Pacifica, a wage and hour class action on behalf of low wage hotel workers that settled for $6.5 million. In April 2010, he briefed and argued a First Amendment freedom of political speech case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Mr. Piovia-Scott has been selected as a “Rising Star” by the Los Angeles Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine for each year since 2005. He joined the Law Offices of Randy Renick in 2002 and Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick in 2008 with the merger of the two firms.
Mr. Piovia-Scott graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 2002 as part of the Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and was a member of the second class of the law school’s Concentration in Critical Race Studies. While in law school, Mr. Piovia-Scott worked for the ACLU of Southern California, the Western Center on Law and Poverty and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. He spent his first summer in Guatemala helping prepare a case on behalf of families of people who had been “disappeared” during that country’s civil conflict and his second summer in Geneva, Switzerland working on the World Conference Against Racism.
Mr. Piovia-Scott graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and from Berkeley High School. He sits on the board of directors of Peace Action West, where he worked as a political organizer before attending law school.
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